#novel

I spent the nights of fall and winter of 2017 walking the towns and fringes of the northern Ruhrgebiet and the Emscher valley.
There is an acuteness of hearing and a sense of something larger when visiting those drab and menial places at night. Things, animals and people restricted to the hours of darkness come out and start prowling. The daylight people can be reckoned as dead for a brief period and it really changes the game.
I collected quite a bit of impressions there and maybe it turns into something tangible. Something new is coming to those places and noone knows if it is to fear or to embrace.

Jens Maria Weber

Designer, graphic artist, painter, sculptor, illustrator etc, who never forgets that he's still a designer after all.
Reared in the west german industrial towns of the seventies during the days of grey laundry and belching chimneys. Studied english and german literature at the Ruhruniversität Bochum until he followed the call to the secret mysteries of design at the FH Dortmund. After the diploma he worked as a designer in Hamburg and changed to freelancing in 2001, specializing in design and illustration.
He lives in the Ruhrgebiet again, where one can better focus on work and is busy with art and illustration.